Significant Funding Awarded to Research Project on Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)

The Ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux (MSSS), the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQSC) and the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Santé (FRQS) have awarded $920,750 to Marie-Ève Bouthillier and her team for the research project Mieux comprendre le recours à l’aide médicale à mourir en contexte québécois.

Several CREGÉS members are taking part in this project: Valérie Bourgeois-Guérin, Maryse Soulières and Maude Lévesque, research members, Sabrina Lessard and Émilie Richard-Frève, institutional researchers, and Patrick Durivage, coordinator of the Domain of Expertise in Palliative Care.

Sandra Smele, coordinator of the Domain of Expertise in Inclusive Aging, Diversity, Health and Well-Being (IDSB), and Karine Ohayon, Coordinator of Knowledge Transfer – Programming and Partnerships, will be collaborators.

This research project is expected to contribute to a better understanding of the main factors explaining the increase in the number of medical aid in dying requests received and administered in Quebec. The project also aims to contribute to ministerial work developing public policies, social programs, and monitoring systems for medical aid in dying.

Congratulations to all on receiving this funding!